History TheChewToy / AnimeAndManga

* Kelly from ''Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise'' is a [[SlapstickKnowsNoGender female]] version of this trope. She's not clumsy or incompetent, just ''incredibly'' unlucky. No matter how remote her vacations or how many cars she buys, they will always be ruined by the Transformers on a regular basis. To add insult to injury, it's seldom as a result of collateral damage and instead of incredible misfortune.

* After being disgraced by Edward of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', [[DirtyCoward Yoki]] spends the rest of the series being on the receiving end of constant humiliation, from being beaten up by refugees, practically being Scar's slave and being a useless hostage because no one cares what happens to him. It actually gets to the point that everyone (including the reader and ''Yoki himself'') is surprised when he saves everyone from a really nasty BigBad with some well-timed CarFu. In [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the first anime]], he's spared this humiliation; instead, [[spoiler:Lust kills him to set off a riot]].

** Taken UpToEleven in the ''Slayers Premium'' movie, where she spends the final third of it alone on an island, unable to speak. Zelgadis assumes she left on her own and goes his merry way when the movie ends.

* In ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'', Lithuania seems to exist to be tortured by [[HeterosexualLifePartners his best friend Poland]], [[KnifeNut his crush Belarus]], and [[PsychopathicManchild his boss Russia]]. This can be applied to any of the Baltic States, with little Latvia being the most obviously traumatized. Oh, and let's not forget Ukraine, Russia and Belarus's sister and the [[OnlySaneMan only sane nation-tan]] in the family. This is sadly TruthInTelevision, as Eastern Europe's history is full of ChewToy situations. Usually, only Poland gets any recognition.

* Hol Horse from ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders''. In his first appearance he was quite a threat, as he [[spoiler:almost]] kills Avdol, but is forced to run away when his backup is beaten as he's too much of a coward to fight by himself. The next time we see him he's forced into an EnemyMine situation thanks to his previous actions, but once again gets away, this time with the heroes' car. The last time we see him he's teamed up with Boingo, trying to take advantage of the latter's powers of prediction. He screws up and winds up shooting himself in the face with his ''own gun''.

** Ash, mainly in the early seasons, though his chew toy status came back in the Sun and Moon anime. He often suffers Amusing Injuries, some of his Pokémon (such as Charizard) won't follow his orders, and he keeps getting mocked by his rival; Gary Oak.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':

** Ash, mainly in the early seasons, though his chew toy status came back in the Sun and Moon anime.
*** His Pokémon (such as Charizard) won't follow his orders.
*** He keeps getting mocked by his rival; Gary Oak.
** He suffers several Amusing Injuries,
** Misty’s suffered too:
*** She's been scared by various Bug-type Pokémon.
*** She's had her bike destroyed.
*** A Vulpix breathed fire in her face.
*** She got whacked by Onix's tail.
*** She got her head covered in Spinarak silk.
*** Brock hit her on the head. Twice.
** Clemont from the X & Y anime. His inventions usually backfire on him and he keeps getting attacked by Pokémon.

* In ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'', Rosa gets the worst of this. [[spoiler:The only time she's made it past the second twilight was [=EP2=].]] And frankly, dying horribly is probably an improvement over what she goes through in some of the other arcs, ''especially'' [=EP4=], when [[spoiler:Maria kills her over and over again with magic in the most painful ways she can think of as a horrific version of CallingTheOldManOut.]] Unlike Satoko, it is very difficult to see her as a complete TheWoobie, at least at the beginning of the story given her [[KickTheDog relationship]] [[AbusiveParents with her daughter]].

** Spandam: You hate him from the start of the story, being physically weak and feeling strong only because he has strong people working under him, he ruined Franky's childhood by killing his mentor, and he doesn't seem to believe lowly pirates, scum of the sea can possibly be superhuman enough to defeat [=CP9=], and is under the misconception that [[OneManArmy Luffy]] only killed 5 of his guards, with no idea that Enies Lobby has actually been invaded by pirates, and then of course, he is punched and crushed with an elephant by Franky (ItMakesSenseInContext) then is slapped repeatedly by Robin, while later having his spine broken by her. And after watching the whole "Enies Lobby" Arc, you'll love to watch it, along with his other mishaps during the arc.

* In ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia'', Lithuania seems to exist to be tortured by [[HeterosexualLifePartners his best friend Poland]], [[KnifeNut his crush Belarus]], and [[PsychopathicManchild his boss Russia]]. This can be applied to any of the Baltic States, with little Latvia being the most obviously traumatized. Oh, and let's not forget Ukraine, Russia and Belarus's sister and the [[OnlySaneMan only sane nation-tan]] in the family. This is sadly TruthInTelevision, as Eastern Europe's history is full of ChewToy situations. Usually, only Poland gets any recognition.

* In ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia'', Lithuania seems to exist to be tortured by [[HeterosexualLifePartners his best friend Poland]], [[KnifeNut his crush Belarus]], and [[PsychopathicManchild his boss Russia]]. This can be applied to any of the Baltic States, with little Latvia being the most obviously traumatized. Oh, and let's not forget Ukraine, Russia and Belarus's sister and the [[OnlySaneMan only sane nation-tan]] in the family.
** This is sadly TruthInTelevision, as Eastern Europe's history is full of ChewToy situations. Usually, only Poland gets any recognition.

* There’s the Team Rocket Trio from the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime, since they always follow Ash just to get Pikachu but their plans keep backfiring on them and usually causes them to blast off into the sky on almost all of their appearances.
** Ash himself is no better than Team Rocket either, mainly in the early seasons due to his Pokémon not following his orders such as Charizard, getting mocked by his rival; Gary Oak, and suffering several AmusingInjuries, his chew toy status came back in the Sun and Moon anime.
** Misty can be this at times on the same level as Team Rocket and Ash as well, even when she doesn’t deserve it, she’s been scared by various Bug-type Pokémon, had her bike destroyed, had a Vulpix spew fire on her face, got whacked by Onix's tail, got her head covered in Spinarak silk, got hit on the head by Brock (twice), occasionally gets electrocuted by Pikachu along with Ash and Brock, gets picked on by her older sisters, gets tied up by Team Rocket several times, accidentally catches a Psyduck, has Psyduck sent out of her Pokeball instead of the Pokémon she wants to use, have Ash and Brock laugh at her makeup, and so fourth.
** Clemont from the Pokémon X & Y anime, due to his inventions usually backfiring on him and how he gets attacked by several other Pokémon.

** Misty can be this at times on the same level as Team Rocket and Ash as well, even when she doesn’t deserve it, she’s been scared by various Bug-type Pokémon, had her bike destroyed, had a Vulpix spew fire on her face, got whacked by Onix's tail, got her head covered in Spinarak silk, got hit on the head by Brock (twice), occasionally gets electrocuted by Pikachu along with Ash and Brock, gets picked on by her older sisters, gets tied up by Team Rocket several times, accidentally catches a Psyduck, has Psyduck sent out of her PokeBall instead of the Pokémon she wants to use, have Ash and Brock laugh at her makeup, and so fourth.

* There’s the Team Rocket Trio from the ''Anime/{{Pokémon}}'' anime, since they always follow Ash just to get Pikachu but their plans keep backfiring on them and usually causes them to blast off into the sky on almost all of their appearances.

* There’s the Team Rocket Trio from the ''Anime/Pokémon(Anime)'' anime, since they always follow Ash just to get Pikachu but their plans keep backfiring on them and usually causes them to blast off into the sky on almost all of their appearances.
** Ash himself is no better than Team Rocket either, mainly in the early seasons due to his Pokémon not following his orders such as Charizard, getting mocked by his rival; Gary Oak, and suffering several AmusingInjuries, his chew toy status came back in the Sun and Moon anime.
** Misty can be this at times on the same level as Team Rocket and Ash as well, even when she doesn’t deserve it, she’s been scared by various Bug-type Pokémon, had her bike destroyed, had a Vulpix spew fire on her face, got whacked by Onix's tail, got her head covered in Spinarak silk, got hit on the head by Brock (twice), occasionally gets electrocuted by Pikachu along with Ash and Brock, gets picked on by her older sisters, gets tied up by Team Rocket several times, accidentally catches a Psyduck, has Psyduck sent out of her PokeBall instead of the Pokémon she wants to use, have Ash and Brock laugh at her makeup, and so fourth.
** Clemont from the Pokémon X & Y anime, due to his inventions usually backfiring on him and how he gets attacked by several other Pokémon.

* There’s the Team Rocket Trio from the ''Anime/Pokémon'' anime, since they always follow Ash just to get Pikachu but their plans keep backfiring on them and usually causes them to blast off into the sky on almost all of their appearances.
** Ash himself is no better than Team Rocket either, mainly in the early seasons due to his Pokémon not following his orders such as Charizard, getting mocked by his rival; Gary Oak, and suffering several AmusingInjuries, his chew toy status came back in the Sun and Moon anime.
** Misty can be this at times on the same level as Team Rocket and Ash as well, even when she doesn’t deserve it, she’s been scared by various Bug-type Pokémon, had her bike destroyed, had a Vulpix spew fire on her face, got whacked by Onix's tail, got her head covered in Spinarak silk, got hit on the head by Brock (twice), occasionally gets electrocuted by Pikachu along with Ash and Brock, gets picked on by her older sisters, gets tied up by Team Rocket several times, accidentally catches a Psyduck, has Psyduck sent out of her PokeBall instead of the Pokémon she wants to use, have Ash and Brock laugh at her makeup, and so fourth.
** Clemont from the Pokémon X & Y anime, due to his inventions usually backfiring on him and how he gets attacked by several other Pokémon.

* ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'': Ship Lee-Soo and Parakewl. One because his reactions are just to funny and the other because he just has it coming.

* Hol Horse from part 3 of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''. In his first appearance he was quite a threat, as he [[spoiler:almost]] kills Avdol, but is forced to run away when his backup is beaten as he's too much of a coward to fight by himself. The next time we see him he's forced into an EnemyMine situation thanks to his previous actions, but once again gets away, this time with the heroes' car. The last time we see him he's teamed up with Boingo, trying to take advantage of the latter's powers of prediction. He screws up and winds up shooting himself in the face with his ''own gun''.

* ''Manga/OnePiece''

* Katsuya Jounouchi/Joey Wheeler of ''Anime/YuGiOh'' almost constantly gets this treatment from Seto Kaiba.

* In ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'', Rosa gets the worst of this. [[spoiler:The only time she's made it past the second twilight was [=EP2=].]] And frankly, dying horribly is probably an improvement over what she goes through in some of the other arcs, ''especially'' [=EP4=], when [[spoiler:Maria kills her over and over again with magic in the most painful ways she can think of as a horrific version of CallingTheOldManOut.]] Unlike Satoko, she's still not TheWoobie, given her [[KickTheDog relationship]] [[AbusiveParents with her daughter]].

* After being disgraced by Edward of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', [[DirtyCoward Yoki]] spends the rest of the series being on the receiving end of constant humiliation, from being beaten up by refugees, practically being Scar's slave and being a useless hostage because no one cares what happens to him. It actually gets to the point that everyone (including the reader and ''Yoki himself'') is surprised when he saves everyone from a really nasty BigBad with some well-timed CarFu.
** In [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the first anime]], he's spared this humiliation; instead, [[spoiler:Lust kills him to set off a riot]].

* ''Originally'', ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry''[='=]s chew toy was Satoko. However, by the fourth arc, she's [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap rescued from the bin]], and gained a large fan base. She's now just TheWoobie. She can go between being a chew toy and a woobie depending on the mood of the show at the time.
** In ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'', Rosa gets the worst of this. [[spoiler:The only time she's made it past the second twilight was [=EP2=].]] And frankly, dying horribly is probably an improvement over what she goes through in some of the other arcs, ''especially'' [=EP4=], when [[spoiler:Maria kills her over and over again with magic in the most painful ways she can think of as a horrific version of CallingTheOldManOut.]] Unlike Satoko, she's still not TheWoobie, given her [[KickTheDog relationship]] [[AbusiveParents with her daughter]].

* Lancer from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' may have been a credible threat in the original work, but subsequent sequels and fan works often portray him as largely useless, particularly whenever Archer is around. In the recent ''Anime/CarnivalPhantasm'' series, he's killed off more or less OncePerEpisode, and his 'guest appearance' on the (fake) preview for Arcueid's magical girl show has his silhouette dramatically show up... before instantly being hit by a car. Assassin has been entirely replaced with a cardboard cutout in the first episode of CP.

*** He get better from the second half of Fisher Island arc getting several ThrowTheDogABone.

* Sakura (a [[GenderBlenderName boy,]] mind you), the main character of ''[[LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokuroChan Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan]]'', is a particularly good example. He gets killed and revived several times per episode in the most brutally over-the-top ways possible.
** At least he isn't the only one to suffer: The angel Sabato, who's introduced in the second episode, has to suffer a lot of misery and hardships after she fails to kill Sakura.
* Tokoro Tennosuke from ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'' should be the posterboy where's begin? in friends ignores him when he have to be save, uses him as a shield, or attack him without even caring even worse, sometimes the enemies seem to forget the hero and attacks him.

* Takeru in ''Rokushin Gattai Anime/GodMars'' is a terrific example. The head Bad Guy sends him to Earth as an infant such that, once grown up, he will destroy the planet. But things go wrong - relatively speaking - and Takeru, now grown up, decides against the plan. Whereupon the Bad Guy sends out assassin after assassin to kill him and, in just about every episode, he's beaten, burned, frozen, zapped, electrocuted, asphyxiated to within a centimeter of his life, at which point the title robot arrives to save him. In the second half of the 64 episode series, he's even stuck with a psionic device which drains part of his life force if he attempts to use his powers. It doesn't get much worse than that. Oh and, he knows that, if he does die, the super-bomb in his guardian robot will blow up the planet.

* ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'': Ship Lee-Soo and Parakewl. One because his reactions are just to funny and the other because he just has it coming.

* Kon from ''{{Manga/Bleach}}''. He is the right size for it and constantly fails to be cool. He's is ''literally'' a chew toy (or a doll), anyway.
* The main cast of ''{{LightNovel/Slayers}}'' gets treated this way in some fashion, save Lina the heroine, but the worst of it is heaped onto Amelia. Compared to her other companions, whenever she has a say in something, she gets ignored, is thrown around by enemies a lot, gets pointed out for the dumbest things (the end of the first anime series had [[BigBad Copy Rezo]] point out her tendency to [[GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger point at others]], just to humiliate her), tends to be dismissed when she gets hurt unless the situation is dire (no one seems to care in one episode of the second series when she takes a Brass Racket ball to the face)...even [[TheDitz idiot]] ''Gourry'', being a skilled swordsman, has an easier time than she does, save for when Lina is beating him up.
** Taken UpToEleven in the ''Slayers Premium'' movie, where she spends the final third of it alone on an island, unable to speak. Zelgadis assumes she left on her own and goes his merry way when the movie ends.
* ''Manga/JunjouRomantica'': Takahashi Misaki, who is the love (and jealousy) interest for an entire clan.

* In ''{{Manga/xxxHOLiC}}'', one Watanuki Kimihiro never seems to get a break. He's antagonized by monsters [[InvisibleToNormals normal people can't see]], degraded and belittled by his employer, constantly having to be rescued by his "rival" and to top it all off, he never gets the girl.
** It's later either {{justified|Trope}} or made worse, depending on perspective, when it is [[TheReveal revealed]] that ''he is literally [[spoiler:not supposed to exist]]'', and he knows it. Those invisible horrors stalking him? They're only doing it due to his supernatural nature combined with ''[[spoiler:subconscious suicidal desires]]''.
* Lancer from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' may have been a credible threat in the original work, but subsequent sequels and fan works often portray him as largely useless, particularly whenever Archer is around. In the recent ''Anime/CarnivalPhantasm'' series, he's killed off more or less OncePerEpisode, and his 'guest appearance' on the (fake) preview for Arcueid's magical girl show has his silhouette dramatically show up... before instantly being hit by a car. Assassin has been entirely replaced with a cardboard cutout in the first episode of CP.
* Mesousa from ''Anime/PaniPoniDash''. Not an episode goes by without the universe inflicting some form of misfortune on him, from being attacked by malevolent soda cans to being stranded in space to being used as a ''literal'' chew toy. Appropriately enough, his name means "weeping rabbit".
* Normad, a DeadpanSnarker AI stuck inside an immobile plush toy in ''Anime/GalaxyAngel'', is generally abused and mistreated by every single member of the cast (usually due to his snarking pushing somebody's BerserkButton), including [[EmotionlessGirl Vanilla]], whom he worships despite the fact that she drags him around on the ground by his tail, uses him as a shield whenever needed, and has resorted to eating him whenever she's on the verge of starvation.
** As a ContinuityNod, Mimolette, a bizarre floating cat-head thing from ''Anime/GalaxyAngelRune'' gets much the same treatment, despite being generally nice and helpful to the girls. Nearly every single episode ends with a freeze-frame of whatever horrible suffering was piled upon him, following the PostEpisodeTrailer.
* Kiyone from the ''Anime/TenchiUniverse'' branch of ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' endures constant humiliation due to being partnered with Mihoshi, who is the personification of [[TheDitz ditz]].
* Mic Sounders The 13th in the first half of ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'' lasts, on average, about five seconds in any real battle until he gets swatted away like a fly. In the second half though, the universe makes it up to him by giving Mike a [[TookALevelInBadass System Change]] transformation powered by ThePowerOfRock, and the most potent WeaponOfMassDestruction in the series.
* In ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia'', Lithuania seems to exist to be tortured by [[HeterosexualLifePartners his best friend Poland]], [[KnifeNut his crush Belarus]], and [[PsychopathicManchild his boss Russia]]. This can be applied to any of the Baltic States, with little Latvia being the most obviously traumatized. Oh, and let's not forget Ukraine, Russia and Belarus's sister and the [[OnlySaneMan only sane nation-tan]] in the family.
** This is sadly TruthInTelevision, as Eastern Europe's history is full of ChewToy situations. Usually, only Poland gets any recognition.

* ''Manga/ToLoveRu''
** Yuuki Rito invariably ends up in so many AccidentalPervert and NotWhatItLooksLike moments that get him horribly beaten up by girls (at least in the original series, not more in the sequel). Comes with the territory of having [[strike:a [[MagicalGirlfriend Magical]]]] an [[HumanAliens Alien]] [[MagicalGirlfriend Girlfriend]].
** The Principal. His only role is getting beat up by the female characters when he dashes towards them.
** Zastin, quite frequently. Literally the first time Rito meets him, a stray dog starts gnawing the bone-like "armor" on Zastin's leg. The dog shows up, again chewing his armor, at least once more in the series.
* Mutsumune, Mina's UnknownRival in ''Anime/GetsumenToHeikiMina'', is subject to AmusingInjuries every episode, usually as a result of her hubris putting her in the wrong place at the wrong time.
* In ''Manga/ExcelSaga'', Excel normally tries to hold down a job while completing a mission for her beloved Il Palazzo, but her hyperactivity and stupidity means she always fails at both, and destroys wherever she is working.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'''s Sanji just cannot win. It's not just his [[ChivalrousPervert constant failing attempts to woo women]], either. There's also his dreams of mermaids being destroyed by [[{{Gonk}} Kokoro]]; his attempts at earning a bounty bearing fruit in the form of a poster with a [[FacialCompositeFailure God-awful composite sketch]]; his childhood dream of becoming {{invisible}} demolished because Absalom beat him to the punch in a way [[MoralEventHorizon he couldn't even envy]]; and finally meeting a man who hated him because his face was near-identical to that God-awful composite sketch. Ending up in an [[IronicHell island of transvestites]], where he was forced to briefly go native and wound up stuck there so long that he briefly experienced life threatening {{nosebleed}}s around real women.

* Hol Horse from part 3 of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''. In his first appearance he was quite a threat, as he [[spoiler:almost]] kills Avdol, but is forced to run away when his backup is beaten as he's too much of a coward to fight by himself. The next time we see him he's forced into an EnemyMine situation thanks to his previous actions, but once again gets away, this time with the heroes' car. The last time we see him he's teamed up with Boingo, trying to take advantage of the latter's powers of prediction. He screws up and winds up shooting himself in the face with his ''own gun''.
* After being disgraced by Edward of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', [[DirtyCoward Yoki]] spends the rest of the series being on the receiving end of constant humiliation, from being beaten up by refugees, practically being Scar's slave and being a useless hostage because no one cares what happens to him. It actually gets to the point that everyone (including the reader and ''Yoki himself'') is surprised when he saves everyone from a really nasty BigBad with some well-timed CarFu.
** In [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the first anime]], he's spared this humiliation; instead, [[spoiler:Lust kills him to set off a riot]].

* Takeru in ''Rokushin Gattai Anime/GodMars'' is a terrific example. The head Bad Guy sends him to Earth as an infant such that, once grown up, he will destroy the planet. But things go wrong - relatively speaking - and Takeru, now grown up, decides against the plan. Whereupon the Bad Guy sends out assassin after assassin to kill him and, in just about every episode, he's beaten, burned, frozen, zapped, electrocuted, asphyxiated to within a centimeter of his life, at which point the title robot arrives to save him. In the second half of the 64 episode series, he's even stuck with a psionic device which drains part of his life force if he attempts to use his powers. It doesn't get much worse than that. Oh and, he knows that, if he does die, the super-bomb in his guardian robot will blow up the planet.
* ''Originally'', ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry''[='=]s chew toy was Satoko. However, by the fourth arc, she's [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap rescued from the bin]], and gained a large fan base. She's now just TheWoobie. She can go between being a chew toy and a woobie depending on the mood of the show at the time.
** In ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'', Rosa gets the worst of this. [[spoiler:The only time she's made it past the second twilight was [=EP2=].]] And frankly, dying horribly is probably an improvement over what she goes through in some of the other arcs, ''especially'' [=EP4=], when [[spoiler:Maria kills her over and over again with magic in the most painful ways she can think of as a horrific version of CallingTheOldManOut.]] Unlike Satoko, she's still not TheWoobie, given her [[KickTheDog relationship]] [[AbusiveParents with her daughter]].
* Katsuya Jounouchi/Joey Wheeler of ''Anime/YuGiOh'' almost constantly gets this treatment from Seto Kaiba.
** ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': Daitokuji-sensei literally ends up as this after his death due to his cat Pharaoh often chasing him around and swallowing him.
* [[IdiotHero Yoshii]] of ''LightNovel/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'' gets [[WrestlerInAllOfUs beat up]], starved, given detention, and generally mistreated constantly. And it's hilarious!
* [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Shimon]] of [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Gurren Gakuenhen]] has all of the qualities of TheChewToy: his prayers for a normal life get answered with [[http://www.onemanga.com/Tengen_Toppa_Gurren_Lagann_-_Guren_Gakuenhen/1/06/ Kamina doing a flying kick through his bedroom window]] (and this is the most normal entrance into Shimon's room Kamina will ever perform), accidentally gets involved with a girl who regularly draws him into bizarre situations, gets chased by sharks for most of the BeachEpisode, gets blown up by landmines repeatedly, and much much more. The entire universe seems to exist to make try to hurt Shimon. The only things that separate him from an ordinary ChewToy is that he is the main character of the story, and the fact that he manages to take a speech about his constant misfortunes and transform it into a BadassBoast and has an AwesomeMoment before the end of the series.
* Yukinari of ''Manga/GirlsBravo''. Though some fans differ on whether or not it falls into DudeNotFunny at times considering how Kirie, who is supposed to be his best friend, beats him up to a brutal degree constantly.
* Kelly from ''Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise'' is a [[SlapstickKnowsNoGender female]] version of this trope. She's not clumsy or incompetent, just ''incredibly'' unlucky. No matter how remote her vacations or how many cars she buys, they will always be ruined by the Transformers on a regular basis. To add insult to injury, it's seldom as a result of collateral damage and instead of incredible misfortune.
** Episode 1: Fired out of her SUV via Ejector Seat. Episode 2: Car eaten by robotic shark, etc...
** Sky-Byte was a villainous example, with his tendency towards panicking, and getting blown up. In one episode Megatron mistakes him for an Autobot and blows him up ''twice''.
* Noboru from ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'' is abused, embarrassed, and driven to suicide by Anko.
* ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'' has Keima.

* Chuck from ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' (shown in the image on the article main page) is constantly beaten up and killed by EVERYTHING for no good reason. The very first thing we see at the start of the first episode is Chuck being [[BoltOfDivineRetribution fried by a lightning bolt]] (as he always is) when God sends down a mandate for the girls to take care of. Among many, ''MANY'' other examples, he's been kicked around, [[ChunkySalsaRule shot]], decapitated, run over, sliced up on a cutting board, thrown in a blender, thrown in a microwave, had his spine snapped, [[BatterUp batted out of a window with a metal pipe]], [[MadeOfPlasticine casually thrown against the ground]], scalped by the roof of a car, and pummeled into a pile of gloop. Even his own brain killed him once, [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext just to get a little nookie.]]
* ''Manga/NoMatterHowILookAtItItsYouGuysFaultImNotPopular'' gives us Tomoko Kuroki, a lonely, creepy otaku girl who only wants to socialize and [[EpicFail fails miserably every time she tries to do so]]. Even when she manages to achieve something, [[YankTheDogsChain it is only brief and tends to backfire at the end]]. At that point, you can feel sorry for the poor girl or laugh at her hilarious misfortunes (or both things)
* Tokoro Tennosuke from ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'' should be the posterboy where's begin? in friends ignores him when he have to be save, uses him as a shield, or attack him without even caring even worse, sometimes the enemies seem to forget the hero and attacks him.
* Kyubey from ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' gets slammed in the face harder and more epic as the series goes. In addition of being shot and gibbed by Homura Akemi, [[spoiler: he gets beaten by his own game as Madoka wishes to get rid of Witches. In Movie 3, his meddling with Madoka's happy ending gets him ''enslaved'' by Homura.]]
* While you could just as easily say that this applies to the entire main (heroic) cast of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', the ways that the universe seems to single out Shinji Ikari (with some of it even done ''deliberately'' by the GovernmentConspiracy (for extra douchebag points ''run by his dad'')) in denying him any happiness is astonishingly disturbing. Needless to say, it is most definitely ''not'' PlayedForLaughs.
* ''Manga/SgtFrog'': Keroro's regular failure to complete his plans of world domination or even ''his household chores'' result in him getting grabbed by the head, smacked, punched, shoved into the wall, kicked across the room (gooooaaaall!!), and otherwise getting abused by Natsumi. {{Lampshaded}} in one 'flashback' scene where Keroro throws in a few Japanese torture sequences that never really happened...

* While you could just as easily say that this applies to the entire main (heroic) cast of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', the ways that the universe seems to single out Shinji Ikari (with some of it even done ''deliberately'' by the GovernmentConspiracy (for extra douchebag points ''run by his dad'')) in denying him any happiness is astonishingly disturbing. Needless to say, it is most definitely ''not'' PlayedForLaughs.